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09 June 1889. Newman, Francis William to Braithwaite, Robert.

09 June 1889. Newman, Francis William to Braithwaite, Robert.

I shall be very glad to hear that you have broken entirely with tobacco. Total and immediate renunciation is with every unnatural practice by far the easiest way. “Faint heart does not win fair lady,” said the Knight’s motto. “Faint heart does not battle wisely against vicious custom,” say I.
Men who believe that Vice or Rejection of the Gospel dooms others to Eternal Hell are no doubt tender-hearted and philanthropic, likely to make sacrifices, in hope of saving them from Hell, that no one can reasonably expect from us, when we disbelieve in Hell. If any one reproach us for this and will listen to reply, my reply will be, At what price is your philanthropy bought? Clearly at the price of dishonoring God as morally beneath you. A lady neatly answered her minister, who reproved her for not believing in Hell. She replied, “We are exhorted to be perfected as our Father in Heaven. What sort of perfection in him would it be to order us to forgive our enemies, if he never forgave his enemies, but keeps them alive for only sin and misery?” To believe in horrors too bad for devils, is monstrously named Gospel, Good News.
We may be wrong in counting Daniel’s Emperors. Our learned men now make Two Assyrian Emperors; also, the Old Egyptian may have been in the dreamer’s wild brain. Are we bound to make it out wise and true? But certain it is, that while Xenophon in his Cyropaedia follows the Court Romance which smooths over the war of transition, in his Anabaeus he tells of cities which Cyrus took from the Medeans in his war of insurrection. When her conquest was safe over Media, he adopted a Median Chief Mother, to win Bactria without war, I believe,

I shall be very glad to hear that you have broken entirely with tobacco. Total and immediate renunciation is with every unnatural practice by far the easiest way. “Faint heart does not win fair lady,” said the Knight’s motto. “Faint heart does not battle wisely against vicious custom,” say I.
Men who believe that Vice or Rejection of the Gospel dooms others to Eternal Hell are no doubt tender-hearted and philanthropic, likely to make sacrifices, in hope of saving them from Hell, that no one can reasonably expect from us, when we disbelieve in Hell. If any one reproach us for this and will listen to reply, my reply will be, At what price is your philanthropy bought? Clearly at the price of dishonoring God as morally beneath you. A lady neatly answered her minister, who reproved her for not believing in Hell. She replied, “We are exhorted to be perfected as our Father in Heaven. What sort of perfection in him would it be to order us to forgive our enemies, if he never forgave his enemies, but keeps them alive for only sin and misery?” To believe in horrors too bad for devils, is monstrously named Gospel, Good News.
We may be wrong in counting Daniel’s Emperors. Our learned men now make Two Assyrian Emperors; also, the Old Egyptian may have been in the dreamer’s wild brain. Are we bound to make it out wise and true? But certain it is, that while Xenophon in his Cyropaedia follows the Court Romance which smooths over the war of transition, in his Anabaeus he tells of cities which Cyrus took from the Medeans in his war of insurrection. When her conquest was safe over Media, he adopted a Median Chief Mother, to win Bactria without war, I believe,